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The Manchurian Candidate
Years after his squad was ambushed during the Gulf War, Major Ben Marco finds himself having terrible nightmares. He begins to doubt that his fellow squad-mate Sergeant Raymond Shaw, now a vice-presidential candidate, is the hero he remembers him being. As Marco's doubts deepen, Shaw's political power grows, and, when Marco finds a mysterious implant embedded in his back, the memory of what really happened begins to return.
2004 · Directed by Jonathan Demme · 130 min · Thriller · Mystery · Screenplay in the scene database · 10 frames
Tagline
Everything is under control.
Crew
- Screenplay: Dean Georgaris, Daniel Pyne
- Cinematography: Tak Fujimoto
- Edited by: Carol Littleton, Craig McKay
- Music: Rachel Portman
- Production design: Kristi Zea
- Produced by: Scott Rudin, Tina Sinatra, Ilona Herzberg, Jonathan Demme
Cast
- Denzel Washington as Major Bennett Ezekiel Marco
- Meryl Streep as Senator Eleanor Prentiss Shaw (D-VA)
- Liev Schreiber as Congressman Raymond Prentiss Shaw (D-NY)
- Simon McBurney as Dr. Atticus Noyle
- Kimberly Elise as Rosie
- Bruno Ganz as Delp
- Jon Voight as Senator Thomas Jordan (D-CT)
- Jeffrey Wright as CPL Al Melvin
- Anthony Mackie as PFC Robert Baker III
- Ted Levine as Colonel Howard
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Clinica Estetico, Paramount Pictures, Scott Rudin Productions, Tina Sinatra Productions
- Budget: $80,000,000
- Box office: $96,105,964
- Themes: gulf war, post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), ambush, presidential election, senator, kuwait, remake, election, war hero, implant
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